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Subject: 24.1; highlight-regexp not working in v24

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Justin Heyes-Jones <justinhj <at> gmail.com>, 12168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12168: Subject: 24.1; highlight-regexp not working in v24
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:53:01 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> I noticed that I get different behavior with highlight-regexp in emacs
>> 24.1.1 than in 23. Loading the file below, the text that is in the file
>> when it loads will be highlighted in the correct color, but typing new
>> text will not highlight. In the previous version the highlighting would
>> update dynamically as you type.
>> 
>> This is the windows version running under exactly the same
>> environment. If I switch back to 23 it's fine.
>
> For me, it doesn't work in Emacs 23.3, either.  But it does work in
> Emacs 23.2.  So the change that broke this was in between those 2
> versions, not in Emacs 24.

I've committed a fix to trunk.

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